Finding hidden beauty: Middleboro artist's work on display in Bridgewater

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Jun 8, 2017 at 12:53 PMJun 9, 2017 at 9:26 AM

Sara Cline The Enterprise @saraclinenews

BRIDGEWATER - When Robyn Iarrobino, a local artist, walked past a farm window in Middleboro surrounded by deteriorating gray shingles with dusty bottles of all shapes on display behind the glass pane, she paused.

While most people may have just walked past the window without even glancing, Iarrobino instead painted a picture of it. To her that window was a hidden beauty.

This month and next month Iarrobino’s Hidden Beauty art exhibit, which consists of 40 of her paintings, is on display at Bridgewater Public Library’s gallery.

“Today people are so busy that they don’t stop and look,” Iarrobino, who is a Middleboro resident, said. “But there are beautiful things all around us.”

Iarrobino is helping people see the hidden beauties in everyday life by painting them, whether it be a rustic farm window, a pair of row boats floating on the marsh, a family enjoying the beach or a bicycle leaning against a fence.

“If people took a minute to look I’m sure they would find some things around them that are attractive,” she said.

While Iarrobino said she specializes in water color she is experienced in a variety of art mediums. She works with acrylic paint, does oil paintings and sculptures and has even painted the ceiling inside a church.

As she grew up Iarrobino continued her passion for art as she studied at the University of Southern Maine, the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and the Hunakai School of Art in Foxboro.

Today, she owns the Blue Anchor Studio in Middleboro, where she paints and shares her passion and talent with others.

“I have always loved teaching,” Iarrobino said. “But another side of me loved being an artist.”

So she combined the two.

At her studio, Iarrobino offers private lessons, holds paint nights and even hosts a class where people create a seascape window, a window that has a design on it made out of sea glass and shells.

“My advice for new artists is not to give up,” Iarrobino said. “Draw everyday and just don’t ever give up.”

Iarrobino’s Hidden Beauty exhibit will be on display during the months of June and July at the Bridgewater Public Library’s Flora T. Little Gallery. The gallery is open Monday to Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be an artist meet and greet with Iarrobino on Monday, June 19 at 6 p.m.

For more information on Iarrobino and her studio visit https://www.facebook.com/Blueanchorstudio/.